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Immunoglobulins and Complement

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The immune-response system recognises, combines with and destroys antigenic material. The important features and nomenclature of the immune-response system are described in Chapter 6. Readers are advised to consult this latter section first in order to obtain the background information necessary for a full understanding of this chapter, which describes those characteristics of immunoglobulins (antibodies) and the complement system that are responsible for some of these immune effects.

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  • Amzel, M. and Poljuk, R.J. (1979) `Three-Dimensional Structure of Immunoglobulins’, Annual Reviews of Biochemistry, 48, 961–97

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  • Gough, N. (1981) `The Rearrangements of Immunoglobin Genes’, Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 6, 203–5

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  • Porter, R.R. and Reid, K.B.M. (1978) `The Biochemistry of Complement’, Nature, 275, 699–704

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  • Reid, K.B.M. and Porter, R.R. (1981) `The Proteolytic Activation Systems of Complement’, Annual Reviews of Biochemistry, 50, 433–64

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  • Robertson, M. (1980) `Chopping and Changing in Immunoglobulin Genes’, Nature, 287, 390–2

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  • Weissman, I.L., Hood, L.E. and Wood, W.B. (1978) Essential Concepts in Immunology, The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company Inc., California

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  1. N. J. Russell
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  2. G. M. Powell
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  3. J. G. Jones
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  4. P. J. Winterburn
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© 1982 N.J. Russell, G.M. Powell, J.G. Jones, P.J. Winterburn and J.M. Basford

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Russell, N.J., Powell, G.M., Jones, J.G., Winterburn, P.J., Basford, J.M. (1982). Immunoglobulins and Complement. In: Blood Biochemistry. Croom Helm Biology in Medicine Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7892-1_7

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